State ex rel. Nixon v. Second Judicial District Court

This is an application for a writ of certiorari to review the action of the district court in committing the relator to jail for contempt in disobedience of an order compelling him to pay alimony pendente lite to the plaintiff in the divorce action of May Nixon against the relator. This application is made in aid of an application of a writ of habeas corpus, in which relator alleges that he is unlawfully imprisoned by virtue of the order of the district court, committing him for contempt, as above recited.

In that divorce action the court made an order that the defendant (relator herein) pay…